Lit. Wish-granting mudra (Sk:varada-mudra); also segan-in {θσ. A mudra or hand gesture *in σ in which the right hand is held pendant with the palm turned outwards in the case of standing images and with the right hand resting on the right knee with palm turned upwards in the case of seated images. Because in paintings it is difficult to depict an upturned hand resting on the knee, the right hand is sometimes shown slightly raised and extended towards the right.
This mudra represents the gesture of giving with the extended right hand, and it symbolizes the fulfillment of devotee's wishes. For this reason it is used not only in images of Tathagatas *nyorai @ but also in images of various bodhisattvas *bosatsu μF. In India there are examples of images of *Shaka ίή with his right hand displaying this mudra but there are almost no such examples found in Japan, where images with the right hand displaying the *semui-in {³Ψσ and the left hand displaying the yogan-in are regarded as representing the general style for images of Tathagaatas. In Japan this style is termed the tsuubutsugyou Κ§` or "form common to Buddhas."
In Indian examples of Tathagata images with the right hand displaying the semui-in, the left hand will often be shown holding a corner of the robes, while in the case of a seated image the left hand may be placed in the lap in the manner of the "meditation mudra" *zenjou-in Tθσ. In India the right hand was considered to be pure and the left hand impure, and hence giving anything with the left hand was inconceivable. In Buddhist images of Indian provenance the yogan-in in the left hand is rather exceptional. Strictly speaking, it is questionable whether or not this name should be applied to such mudra, but it is deeply rooted in Japan. In the iconography of Japanese Buddhism, the yogan-in formed with the right hand is not only used as the mudra of deities of Esoteric Buddhism such as Houshou σΆ (Sk: Ratnasambhava) of the *Kongoukai mandaraΰEΦδΆ and Houdou σ² (Sk: Ratnaketu) of the *Taizoukai mandara Ω EΦδΆ , but it is also widely used as the mudra of many bodhisattvas, including various forms of *Kannon ΟΉ, *Kokuuzou σ (Sk:Akasagarbha) and *Jizou n (Sk:Ksitigarbha).

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